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CUT OPEN
Michael Murphenko
I am interested in energy and its effects: how energy interacts with human beings; the different types of energy – emotional, potential, actual, visual, electric, nuclear, mental, social and spiritual – that flow naturally in humans, unless something is not right.
Confusion is a parasite that feeds off and covers over the natural flow of energy. It comes from unacknowledged contradictions, such as when a person publicizes strength, but practises weakness or when one argues against the pain of truth in favour of sugary lies. Confusion is an area to be investigated because people are always engaged in a struggle with contradictions.
Once you overcome the confusion and embrace the contradiction of happiness, strength, pain, sight, evil and weakness, the parasite leaves and the natural (painful) growth ensues. So, with every work, I am cutting to the bones until it opens up bare canvas and thin layers of paint as energy.
MEDIA
Nothing must interfere with the pursuit of clarity and natural flows of energy. I find, at the moment, that oil and canvas are the cleanest method to express this. Intense colours create a visual field of energy that interacts with the human, spiritual and material. The lines are straight and curving, each forming different emotional energies and intellectual directions.
This links to the formal powers of art as expressed in Arnheim, Klee and Kandinsky’s writing. Even with only a circle and a line, an energetic art work can be created. It is not the complexity, but the power that is important.
HEAT
Experiencing these paintings is a personal event. A painting, drawing, installation, video or etching must have a feeling of heat, of energy stored within it, to be ready for the world.
[Sokolivka, August 2007]
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